July 12th 2009 Sunday Message
Message by Joshua Jung Myung Seok
Summary by Shaun McMillan and Will Yeh

Scriptures: Genesis ~ Revelations

“Evangelism and management” are a pair. They are a couple. God is Almighty and All-knowing also because He manages all of the universe. After creating He manages all of them in great detail. If God had not taken care of them after creating them, all the things in the universe and the earth would have died.

Evangelizing is a tremendous thing. It makes a person who is headed for hell go to heaven. How tremendous that is. What is even greater and more important is managing them and taking care of them. People who control and manage their words and actions at each instant are great people. People who cannot /manage themselves cannot manage their churches either.

The Lord is always telling us, “There is no time.” Even to those who receive revelations the Lord says, “There is no time. Hurry.” With the second coming at hand or with the judgment of the world at hand the Lord breathlessly says, “There is no time,” to every person in this world. The Lord said, “If there was time, then everyone can do it but there is no time.”

Hearing the Lord saying there is no time people wonder “Is there any need to go to school? Should I continue to go to work? Should I not go to other nations?” They are even wondering, “Should I withdraw all my money from the long term savings?”

You must prepare for meeting the Lord while at the same time doing everything you need to do. Stopping school does not mean you will meet the second coming. Your faith must come to life and your spirit must come to life through becoming born again through the word and the Holy Spirit. Then you will be able to meet the Lord. We must not become people who are focused on waiting for the end times.

A person was at home waiting to go to service. He looked at the clock and saw that there were 2 hours left till the service time. Regarding the service time the Lord said, “There is no time.” But the person answered saying, “But there are still two hours left.”

The Lord made that statement after calculating the time taking into account all the things he needed to do before going to church. There were only 2 hours left till service time but the amount of times he needs exceeds that.

Do you understand why the Lord told us that we don’t have time? It is not because we only have 6 months or a year left. The Lord is saying that we don’t have time after adding up all the final time we have left for using it on receiving the Lord.

Do you know what is the only power that can destroy and drive out complaining and grumbling hearts? There is nothing but “Prayer, thanksgiving, and praise.” That is why I give thanks to God, Holy Spirit, and Jesus thousands of times per day. If I don’t do that, I cannot endure it. So when grumbling and complaining rise I drive it out and crush it with ferocious thanksgiving and keep the complaining and grumbling from coming to my heart.

If you don’t pray, give thanks, and praise, satan will come into your heart. If you don’t stop this, complaining and grumbling will turn it into hell. Then big problems will result. You must drive satan away with prayer, thanksgiving, and praise. If you fail to drive out satan, it will be like losing the battle on a battlefield. You have no choice but to let the enemy work you, torment you, and accept the suffering they give you. You will be so tormented you will want to die. That is why you must strengthen your power everyday with prayer, thanksgiving, and praise.

“You keep making mistakes and sinning but you only rebuke the body. Don’t tear your clothes. Instead, tear your hearts. Tear away your rotten hearts. You must dig out all the wrong mentality and rotten mindset and heart, should you not? It is not your hand that hit the people. It is your mind that hit them. Even though your hands and feet hit your brothers and sisters, the owner of those hands and feet are your mind and heart. Therefore, tear your heart, crush it, and repent.”

“People of God, being pure is not everything. Be strong and bold.”

~ End

July 15th 2009 Wednesday Message Summary

That Woman, that Man

Scriptures: Revelations 12

The ultimate man that appears in Revelations 12 is Jesus Christ whom we believe in and love. It refers to Jesus who was born in Israel. The Lord said that when Apostle John received revelations and wrote Revelations 12, he wasn’t saying that another man will be born to make things happen. Apostle John had always called the Lord “teacher [Rabbi].” He begins Revelations 1:2 with “The Words of God, testimony of Jesus Christ.”

We will look at Revelations 12:1. There was a woman who was clothed with the sun, the moon was beneath her feet, and she had a crown with twelve stars on her head. The woman refers to the nation of Israel. The twelve stars refer to the twelve tribes of Israel. The “Woman” refers to Israel and the “Crown with twelve stars” refer to the twelve tribes that God blessed Jacob with. On a miniature scale they refer to Jacob’s twelve sons and on a magnified scale they refer to the tribes that made up the nation of Israel.

Revelations 19:14 says that “The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean.” The people who believe and follow the messiah were likened to “The army of the heavens riding on white horses.”

The clean linen are the clothing of righteousness. People wear their actions as their clothing. People wear clothing according to their deeds. If people’s deeds are dirty and they don’t obey God’s words, they are influenced by the domain of darkness and their clothing are dirty and dark. If we have clean actions, obey God’s words, have solid faith, live with the Lord, diligently do the work of the Lord, repent, and make ourselves clean, then your clothing of righteousness and clothing for your spirits are clean. They shine.

Jesus ruled the nations with the authority of the iron scepter. There are conditions to receiving it. You must meet the requirements. He gives the authority of the iron scepter to those who have defeated satan, those who defeated tribulations, and those who defeated persecutions. It is truly hard to become people who defeat satan.

Shall we look at the things satan does? Satan gives people all kinds of cruel suffering by working through people. Those sufferings are truly suffering of hell. They say all kinds of slander and criticism, say all kinds of curse words that are too much to repeat, and spread all kinds of disgusting rumors.
The things we say to each other are a form of revelations. That is why you must listen carefully to the things people say. You must discern whether they are errors or their opinions.

Being used as a person of mission and being the person himself is different. There is only one being who is Himself. Both the Lord of first coming and the Lord of second coming are the Lord. But the people that the Lord uses as His people of mission for each time period are made by the Lord. They become used as the Lord’s 2nd body. He is only playing the role of the Lord in terms of the mission. You must believe and follow knowing this.

Everyone, you really don’t have time. Those who are working diligently must sacrifice most things and do first the things that must be done first. The best thing is to do the number one things first and do the rest if you still have time. In fact, you will not be short of time if you cut out just TV watching. You must work hard when you’re doing it. If you rest too much you will lose all the time you gained while you were working fast.
Pastor Joshua’s poem

“I missed you so I asked you to come
But there is no place for you to sit.
There is no time so lets
Stand as I say a few words
Before we go”